“The media was against us,” he said. “They were writing our obituary months ago.”

Gee, if only there was some way that DeSantis and his team could have foreseen that the media would be against him. Usually the institutions of the national mainstream media are such big fans of conservative GOP governors!

[Did DeSantis get a raw deal from the media? Sure, but that comes with the territory. Complaining about it at this late date is not terribly compelling. It’s more of an admission of a failure to prepare for a national campaign. I suspect that DeSantis and his team sort of expected an easier ride given his challenge to Trump, but if so, he miscalculated how much the media relies on Trump for their clicks. — Ed]